Priest and former Telford headteacher dies at 92
A former Shropshire headteacher, priest, magistrate, and councillor has died at the age of 92.
The Rev Cyril Haynes was the head of the old Pool Hill Junior School in Dawley and then, after it was burned down in 1977, its successor, the Captain Webb County Primary School, for 18 years overall.
He was ordained in June 1984 and became a member of the clergy team in Much Wenlock and the surrounding 10 parishes, and retired from teaching after 38 years the following April.
Mr Haynes, who lived in Much Wenlock at that time, was also a magistrate and Much Wenlock town councillor. In the last part of his life he lived at Beaumaris.
A Welshman, his first teaching job was in West Sussex, and he then went to a primary school in Evancoyd, Radnorshire, for his first headship in 1954.
His next move was to Richard's Castle school, and then to Madeley CofE Junior School. He became head of the old Pool Hill Junior School in Dawley in 1967. After it burned down it was amalgamated with the neighbouring Pool Hill Infants School in 1979 and renamed Captain Webb School, with Mr Haynes as head.
After serving as an unpaid priest in the local ordained ministry following his ordination by the Bishop of Hereford at Hereford Cathedral, he was then ordained as a priest by the Bishop of Ludlow in 1985 at St James' Church, Shipton, in what was believed to be the first ever ordination at Shipton.
Among other roles he was a trustee of the Wenlock Almshouses, and a member of the live arts committee of the Olympian Society in the town.
After moving to Anglesey, he also served as a priest and town councillor there. His funeral was on March 8 at Beaumaris.
